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With many thanks from Mr.Bowditch for posting this to his website.
With Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday just past and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species coming up, this is a big year for Darwin fans. The magazine Nature is celebrating as hard as anyone, and one of their contributions is a pamphlet titled 15 Evolutionary Gems. They are encouraging everybody to distribute it and I am only too happy to comply, so you can see a copy here. Feel free to distribute it as widely as possible. The list of its contents appears below.
- Gems from the fossil record
- Land-living ancestors of whales
- From water to land
- The origin of feathers
- The evolutionary history of teeth
- The origin of the vertebrate skeleton
- Gems from habitats
- Natural selection in speciation
- Natural selection in lizards
- A case of co-evolution
- Differential dispersal in wild birds
- Selective survival in wild guppies
- Evolutionary history matters
- Gems from molecular processes
- Darwin’s Galapagos finches
- Microevolution meets macroevolution
- Toxin resistance in snakes and clams
- Variation versus stability
Check out Richard Dawkins book on basic evolution here.
If there is a standard I aspire to, it would be to the level of Pharyngula. A quote from one of his posts on Ken Ham and Creationists…
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/06/a_little_sympathy_for_the_snoo.php
“I sympathize with all their secular neighbors most of all. What will happen? They will live in a country where their schools are third-rate, because the creationists will suppress education not just for their own kids, but for everyone else’s, too. They will see their school boards populated with the products of such fare as the Creation “Museum”, and they will get to vote in elections where their options are Insane-Fundie-Wackjob vs. Slightly-Less-Crazy-God-Botherer. And the lesser-of-two-evils won’t always win, because their neighbors all think the fundier, the better.
I sympathize because they are all missing the awesomeness of reality for the awfulness of some narrow Bronze Age theocratic bullshit.
But there are also some for whom I have no sympathy at all.
I have zero sympathy for intelligent people who stand before a grandiose monument to lies, an institution that is anti-scientific, anti-rational, and ultimately anti-human, in a place where children are being actively miseducated, an edifice dedicated to an abiding intellectual evil, and choose to complain about how those ghastly atheists are ruining everything.
Those people can just fuck off.”
Thank you PZ. :)
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